DreamWorks’ upcoming live-action adaptation How to train your dragon he added Nick Frost (Night of the Living Dead, Hot fuzz) in the cast, where he will play a Viking called Gobber the Belch, Stoick’s trusted friend and advisor. He joins the previously announced co-stars Mason Thames (The black phone) AND Nico Parker (The last of us), who will play Hiccup and Astrid, the young teenagers who befriend the dragons. Gerard Butlerwho voiced Stoick the Vast, the leader of the Viking clan and Hiccup’s father, reprises his role in the flesh.
Dean DeBloiswho co-wrote and directed the original and revered trilogy, is helming the new feature, returning as writer, director and producer.
Using the books of Cressida Cowell as a starting point, How to train your dragon centered on the special friendship between a young and unheroic Viking boy named Hiccup and Toothless, a wounded dragon who he nurses back to health. The films chronicled Hiccup and Toothless’ quest to combat humanity’s prejudices against dragons, the pain of overcoming the loss of a parent, and first love.
Universal has set a June 13, 2025 release date for the feature.
via: THR
by Jessica Fisher
Source: Geek Tyrant
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